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- Aleksandra Lisowska (1848 bytes)
3: ...ne''', '''Rossa''', '''Ruziac''', but more often known by her Turkish name of '''Khourrem''' (or '''H?...
5: ...y in [[Rohatyn]]. She was captured and taken to [[Istanbul]] in the [[1520s]] as a [[slave]], but was select...
7: ...ith his mother, sent away to be a provincial governor, before apparently persuading S?n to have him st...
11: ...rusalem]], and the first to endow a [[mosque]] in Istanbul. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...– [[August 13]], [[1910]]), who came to be known as ''The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pionee...
7: ...er (named [[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman...
9: ...e for the legions of the poor and indigent. She announced her decision to her family in [[1845]], evok...
31: ...ion]]s were common, many of them fatal. There was no equipment to process food for the patients.
47: ...rt became chairman. As a woman, Nightingale could not be appointed to the Royal Commission, but she wr... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...sically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly piano-based music has frequently been compared to that ...
7: ...y the time she reached high school, she was well known in the DC area. During her years at [[Richard M...
10: ...commercial (for which role she beat out a then-unknown [[Sarah Jessica Parker]]). After playing a bar ...
13: ...e rejected on the grounds that the "girl and a piano thing" wasn't going to sell. Extensively re-worke...
16: ...ich featured the vocal contribution of [[Trent Reznor]] of [[Nine Inch Nails]]. The [[Australia]]n ed... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...s Executive|SOE]] [[agent]] also known by the ''[[nom de guerre]]'', '''Christine Granville'''. She b...
7: ...an Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she mar...
9: ...er]], [[Jan Marusarz]], to escort her across the snow-covered [[Tatra Mountains]] into Poland. Arrivi...
11: ... (It did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyn...
15: ...er better — with which she had managed in [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]], during their flight from [[Hungary... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ...lomatic recognition from selected states, but are not UN members. For more information, see [[United N...
5: ... as the '''United Nations Organization''', or '''UNO'''. But by the 1950s, English speakers were refer...
11: *[[UN Economic and Social Council]]
20: ...rnational peace and security and international economic and social cooperation. These proposals were d...
24: ...onths later on [[June 26]]. [[Poland]], which was not represented at the conference, but for which a p... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ... [[China]] in [[1041]], the printing press as we know it today was invented in the West by a [[Holy Ro...
4: ... in China in [[868]] A.D. The technique was also known in [[Europe]], where it was mostly used to prin...
6: ...in relatively recent times (thus bringing the technology full circle).
8: ...duced or invented the printing press in Europe is not accepted by all. The other candidate advanced is...
14: ...he end), but as early as in the 15th century some nobles refused to have printed books in their librar... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
11: largest_city = [[Istanbul]] |latd=41|latm=1|latNS=N|longd=28|longm=57|longE...
47: footnotes = <sup>1</sup> Since [[January 1]] [[2005]], t...
49: ...ia]] is situated between the [[Black Sea]] on the north and the [[Mediterranean Sea]] to south, with t...
50: ...erbaijan]]i exclave of [[Nakhichevan]] and to the northeast; [[Iran]] to the east; and [[Iraq]] and [[...
58: ...s and unique answers of the republic's history cannot be understood without the background of the Turk... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...v Republic of Macedonia]], and [[Albania]] to the north; and with [[Turkey]] to the east. The waters o...
32: ...)|28th]])<br>$21,017 ([[List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita|28th]])
50: ...av Republic of Macedonia]] and [[Albania]] to the north and by [[Turkey]] to the east. The [[Aegean Se...
52: ...ven to be especially influential in [[Europe]], [[Northern Africa]] and the [[Middle East]]. Today, Gr...
57: ...accent is written *before* the accented syllable, not after the accented vowel-->. This name is also ... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...tered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Egypt]], [[France]]...
4: ...nclude the periods of the [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] and [[History of Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]]...
6: ...lympic Games]] in [[776 BC]], but most historians now extend the term back to about [[1000 BC]]. The t...
15: ..." and [[Jerome]]'s "Chronicon", contain brief chronologies and king lists for this period. The history...
17: ...l, military and diplomatic history, and ignore economic and social history. All histories of Ancient G... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ... hour apart. However, the one hour separation is not universal and, as the map below shows, the shap...
6: ...red time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly carried out at Green...
8: ...emainder of the year local time is UTC + 1—known in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British Summe...
14: ...+ 2 (e.g. if it is 03:00 UTC, then it is 05:00 in Istanbul)
22: ... is 06:00 UTC on Monday 1 May, then the time in Honolulu is 20:00, Sunday 30 April) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
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26: ...rich Delitzsch accepted Halevy's arguments, not renouncing Halevy until 1897. Delitzsch would go on t...
28: Delitzsch's student, Arno Poebel, published a grammar with the same title, ...
32: ...duced less than satisfactory results. A line that now even a first year Sumerian student will translat... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...inst the [[Cathars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crusades]].
4: ...sade has evolved to have multiple meanings and connotations. For additional meanings see [[Crusade#Usa...
7: ...nt that there was an entire class of warriors who now had very little to do but fight among themselves...
13: ...faced with invasions by Muslims and other hostile non-Christians such as the Vikings and Magyars. Howe...
18: ...oly war emerged from this background.'' — [[Norman F. Cantor]] - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ...the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantinople).</small>
10: | Constantine makes Constantinople his capital.
21: | Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Os...
27: ...ypt. In the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
29: | [[730]]-[[787]]; [[813]]-[[843]] || Iconoclasm controversies. This results in the loss of ... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
7: ... races (19 in [[2005 Formula One season|2005]]), known as ''grands prix'', on custom-constructed cours...
18: ...ampionship for constructors followed in [[1958]]. Non-championship Formula One races were held for man...
24: The first major technological development, [[Cinquemani]]'s introduction...
28: ...lar chassis; this proved to be the next major technological breakthrough since the introduction of rea...
30: ...ced [[ground effect]] aerodynamics that provided enormous downforce and greatly increased cornering sp... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...ization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as [[Caesar Augustus]]). Although Rome accumul...
5: ...lennium, in [[1453]], the Eastern Empire, better known as the [[Byzantine Empire]], fell to the [[Otto...
9: ...golden crowns and ornate imperial ritual. We now know that the situation was far more nuanced: certain...
19: ... his ambitions seemed to threaten the republic - now placidly accepted one man rule.
21: Augustus's reign was notable for several long-lasting achievements that w... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...ich was a legitimate form of war-like activity by non-state actors, authorized by their national autho...
4: ...rcraft that is directed on the high seas against another ship, aircraft, or against persons or propert...
10: ...itolHill/Parliament/2587/trade.html Phoenician Economy and Trade].</ref> By the 1st century BC, there ...
12: ...in 75 BC,<ref>Again, according to Suetonius's chronology (''Julius'' [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Tha...
16: ...any conflicts with the [[Roman Republic]]. It was not until 68 BC that the Romans finally conquered Il... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...hes over a vast expanse of eastern [[Europe]] and northern [[Asia]]. With an area of 17,075,400 km&sup...
6: ...ential role on the world stage. This influence is notable, but is still far from that of the former So...
13: ...ted both the Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribes, such as the [[Merya]], the [[Muro...
17: ...s divided the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Ukrainians]] in...
19: ...her with [[Novgorod]] retained some degree of autonomy during the time of the [[Mongol]] yoke and was ... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
20: | [[Istanbul|İstanbul]] ([[Constantinople]]/[[Asitane]]/[[Konstantiniyye]] )
45: ...'Turkish Empire'' or ''Turkey'', though it should not be confused with the modern [[nation-state]] of ...
47: ...antinople|captured]] [[Constantinople]] (modern [[Istanbul|İstanbul]]) from the [[Byzantine Empire]], ...
53: ...[[Egypt]] in the south to the [[Caucasus]] in the north. The Empire was situated in the middle of East...
55: ...he Ottomans built a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Protestants]] ... - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
2: ...agia-Sofia-01s.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Hagia Sofia, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1994]]
3: ...formerly [[Constantinople]]. It is universally acknowledged as one of the great buildings of the world...
7: Nothing remains of the first church that was built o...
10: ...s of [[geometry]] at the [[University of Constantinople]]; Anthemius, however, died within the first y...
14: ...pg|right|thumb|400px|Interior of the Hagia Sofia, Istanbul, Turkey. Image provided by [http://classroomclipa... - Ankara (15129 bytes)
2: ...n elevation of 850 m. (2800 ft.) It was formerly known as '''[[Angora|Angora]]''' or '''Engür...
6: ...ngarius) River. The city is located 39°52'30" North, 32°50' East (39.875, 32.8333).
8: ...the picturesqueness of the view; but the town was not well built, many of its houses constructed of su...
13: ...s environs fell into the share of [[Antigonus I Monophthalmus|Antigonus]].
15: ... first to make Ankara their capital. It was then known as '''Ancyra''', meaning "[[anchor]]", one of t...
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